Vigil to end violence against sex workers

Originally published: December 17, 2011 2:23 PM
Updated: December 17, 2011 9:05 PM
By SARAH CRICHTON sarah.crichton@newsday.com

Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | Sarah Elspeth Patterson, left, and Kate D'Adamo light candles to honor sex trade workers who have been killed. (Dec. 17, 2011)

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Sex violence victims are honored by vigil Lynn Barthelemy looks at a photograph of her

The Long Island serial killer case Maureen Brainard-Barnes, left, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and

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Four female bodies were found in the brush

Video gallery: Bodies at Gilgo Beach Marine units resume search for Shannon Gilbert in

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Bodies found at LI beaches

News that Shannan Gilbert's remains had been identified sent a ripple through a vigil for slain sex workers in Manhattan yesterday.

About 260 names of those killed worldwide were read at the vigil, aimed at calling attention to violence against sex workers. The vigil at Trinity Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side also memorialized Gilbert and the women who worked in the sex trade whose...

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